Naturally Occurring Organohalogen Compounds—A Comprehensive Review

GW Gribble - Naturally Occurring Organohalogen Compounds, 2023 - Springer
The present volume is the third in a trilogy that documents naturally occurring
organohalogen compounds, bringing the total number—from fewer than 25 in 1968—to …

Expanding the chemical diversity of fasamycin via genome mining and biocatalysis

K Jiang, X Yan, Z Deng, C Lei, X Qu - Journal of Natural Products, 2022 - ACS Publications
Genome mining and biocatalytic modification of chemical structures are critical methods to
develop new antibiotics. In this study, eight new fasamycins (3, 4, 6, and 8–12) along with …

Re-wiring the regulation of the formicamycin biosynthetic gene cluster to enable the development of promising antibacterial compounds

R Devine, HP McDonald, Z Qin, CJ Arnold, K Noble… - Cell chemical …, 2021 - cell.com
The formicamycins are promising antibiotics first identified in Streptomyces formicae KY5,
which produces the compounds at low levels. Here, we show that by understanding the …

Acidonemycins A–C, Glycosylated Angucyclines with Antivirulence Activity Produced by the Acidic Culture of Streptomyces indonesiensis

H Kim, JY Kim, C Ji, D Lee, SH Shim… - Journal of Natural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The genome of Streptomyces indonesiensis is highly enriched with cryptic biosynthetic gene
clusters (BGCs). The majority of these cryptic BGCs are transcriptionally silent in normal …

A deep learning model for type II polyketide natural product prediction without sequence alignment

J Huang, Q Gao, Y Tang, Y Wu, H Zhang, Z Qin - Digital Discovery, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Natural products are important sources for drug development, and the accurate prediction of
their structures assembled by modular proteins is an area of great interest. In this study, we …

Chlorinated metabolites from Streptomyces sp. highlight the role of biosynthetic mosaics and superclusters in the evolution of chemical diversity

MT Morshed, E Lacey, D Vuong, AE Lacey… - Organic & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
LCMS-guided screening of a library of biosynthetically talented bacteria and fungi identified
Streptomyces sp. MST-144321 as a prolific producer of chlorinated metabolites. We isolated …

The insect microbiome is a vast source of bioactive small molecules

CO Grundmann, J Guzman, A Vilcinskas… - Natural Product …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: September 1964 to June 2023Bacteria and fungi living in symbiosis with insects
have been studied over the last sixty years and found to be important sources of bioactive …

Cell Factory for Phenylnaphthacenoid Polyketide Production

F Maglangit, H Deng - SynBio, 2023 - mdpi.com
Covering 2009–2022. Phenylnaphthacenoid polyketides have gained significant interest in
recent years owing to their potent antibacterial and anticancer activities. Notably, more than …

Marine actinomycetes-derived angucyclines and angucyclinones with biosynthesis and activity--past 10 years (2014-2023)

X Xu, X Huang, W Xu - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Actinomycete bacteria derived from marine environments are a good source of natural
products with diverse biological activities such as cytotoxicity, antiviral, and antimicrobial …

Beyond soil-dwelling actinobacteria: Fantastic antibiotics and where to find them

J Santos-Aberturas, NM Vior - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bacterial secondary metabolites represent an invaluable source of bioactive molecules for
the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. Although screening campaigns for the …